Objective This study evaluates whether Taiwan’s national oral cancer screening programme, implemented in 1999, has led to a ...

In 20 years of researching and teaching health risk communication methods, the most common question we get is: how should I communicate this [adverse event risk, survival probability, etc.] so that ...

The phenomenon of cancer overdiagnosis, the diagnosis of a malignant tumour that, without detection, would never lead to adverse health effects, has been reported for several cancer types in different ...

Acupuncture is a widely used complementary and alternative therapy around the world.1 The number of acupuncture research studies has grown markedly over the past two decades, with >10 000 publications ...

New government legislation is necessary to ensure full transparency of industry payments in the UK’s healthcare. A first step should involve challenging the industry-driven discourse that allows ...

Objectives To develop a core outcome set (COS) for oropharyngeal dysphagia (swallowing disorder) interventions in Parkinson’s disease by agreeing core outcomes and definitions, outcome measurement ...

Objective To investigate the efficacy and safety of open-label placebos (OLP) in premenstrual syndrome (PMS). Design Randomised controlled trial. Setting Switzerland, 2018–2020. Participants 150 women ...

Objectives To investigate the efficacy of non-surgical and non-interventional treatments for adults with low back pain compared with placebo. Eligibility criteria Randomised controlled trials ...

This paper is part of a series of methodological guidance from the Cochrane Rapid Reviews Methods Group. Rapid reviews (RR) use modified systematic review methods to accelerate the review process ...

Background Health technology assessment (HTA) is a valuable tool for informing the efficient allocation of resources in healthcare. However, the resource-intensive nature of HTA can limit its ...

The introduction of generative large language models (LLMs) has led to the exploration of their use in evidence synthesis tasks, such as literature searches,1 screening,2 3 risk of bias assessment,4 5 ...

Inconsistency is a key domain that determines the certainty of evidence. The Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) approach specifically defines inconsistency as ...